Affymetrix Launches SNP Panels for Targeted Genotyping Applications

The selection includes custom panels spanning 1,500 to 20,000 SNPs per assay, as well as seven standard SNP panels for whole-genome coding SNP analysis, disease-related studies and common animal research.

"Affymetrix is accelerating the development and commercialization of new products that are enabling researchers to conduct large-scale studies to find the genes involved in complex diseases."

Affymetrix claims that, in conjunction with the GeneChip Human Mapping 500K Array Set, researchers can either use the 20K cSNP Kit to look at 20,000 coding SNPs or design custom SNP panels to analyze regions of interest in greater detail.

These studies will yield many regions and SNPs worthy of further investigation. Researchers can also use custom panels of up to 20,000 SNPs to follow up on these experiments.

Affymetrix GeneChip Human Immune and Inflammation 9K SNP Kit designed for the researchers studying the genetics of immunobiology, which contains selected informative markers for 1,000 genes that are thought to be involved in the inflammation response.

This panel lets researchers study all of the emerging candidate genes or regions potentially involved in a given immunological condition, not just a few hundred or thousand SNPs.

Standard Affymetrix GeneChip SNP panels for various animal species are designed to enable researchers to perform unbiased gene mapping studies on different breeds or strains of cows, mice and rats.

These multiplexed panels are designed for use with the GeneChip Scanner 3000 Targeted Genotyping System.

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